But seriously, I'm SO sorry this took so long! Let's just say... blame writer's block. o_o

Anyways, we're here now! It's time for SakamichiAKB fic!

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Chapter 1 - Log In

Ouroboros. The endless cycle. Death and rebirth repeats over and over, for all eternity. This world has been destroyed and reconstructed, rewritten countless times throughout the infinite course of life in the universe. You humans do not realize how many times this world has been re-created. Only Gods know. And today, it begins again…

The trial (game) to choose the new God of this world.

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30 Days until the End of the World

“Hm? What the heck is this text? Some kind of spam?”

Sakura stared at the message written on her phone.

“End of the world? What kind of stupid prank is that?” Her friend, Mion spoke. “There’s no one bullying you, is there?”

“What?! No way, Mion. Still, it’s an unknown address… How did they even get my number?”

“Beats me.”

Sakura munched on her melon bread, trying to delete the message on her phone. However, every time she tried, it came up with the same message.

ERROR: Message cannot be deleted.

“This is crazy… Who sent this crappy text message?!” Sakura shouted. Then, she let out a sigh.

“Come on, don’t get so down,” Mion encouraged. “Let’s head back.”

“Okay…”

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“Kyaa! Jurina-san~ so cool!” Everyone cheered as the blonde girl dashed down the track. The female students fangirling drowned Sakura’s hearing as she watched the girl.

“Jurina-senpai… she really is amazing,” she said, her cheeks turning red. “I can’t run like her at all…”

As she stopped running, one of her classmates passing her a towel and water bottle, Sakura couldn’t help but sigh while twirling her tennis shoe shoelace. She wasn’t the athletic type of person; her running style was pathetic and her general LACK of talent in any kind of sport was disappointing.

Not for Jurina. She was a fast runner, had good reflexes, and physically able to lift heavy objects. Not just track and field, but she also participated in the school basketball team and swimming team. On top of all that, she often went to the gym and would go on jogs during the weekends.

In terms of sports, Jurina was perfect… whereas Sakura was utterly lacking.

We slowly made our way outside, avoiding the attention of the black monsters. Once we got out, we ran to Mako and Nana.

“What on Earth is going on?!”

“No clue! We just woke up out here just a minute ago.”

“Is it just… the four of us?”

“No, I don’t think so,” Nana said. “Look.”

She touched the band on her wrist, and a radar appeared. There were red and green diamonds around the area, and where the four of us stood, in the center of the radar, were four pink diamonds.

“We saw black monsters inside the building with red diamonds floating over them.”

“And us…” I looked up at everyone’s heads. “Ours are green.”

“So there must be others here. We have to find them!”

“Weird, though… Why are ours pink?” Mion asked.

“Didn’t you all say you wanted to form a group together?” A new voice said.

“Eh? Who was that?!”

Just then, before the four of us appeared a floating girl in a colorful outfit. She giggled at us while we just stared in confusion.

“What funny reactions you humans have!”

“W-who are you?”

“What are you, is more like it?”

“Name’s Iku-chan! Yoroshiku!” the girl gave us a peace sign. “What do you think? Quite the amazing replica, eh?”

“Replica?”

“This school! Doesn’t it look just like your real school?!”

“Hold on!” I stopped her. “What do you mean, ‘replica’?! Is this not our school?”

“Of course not. I had to create a simulation. We can’t just going around fighting in the actual school building. It’ll be a wreck and people will get killed! That’d be a lot of trouble for the Gods, so we just made this digital simulation and put you in it.”

“Digital… what?!”

“Ahh~ this will take a while to explain. Why don’t you girls go gather up everyone else? I’ll continue once all of you are together! Bye~”

“Wait!” Iku-chan then disappeared, leaving the four of us confused.

“Well… that happened.”

I looked to my friends, all of them seemed unsure what to do. Nana then spoke again.

“Let’s just do as she said and find the others. Once we do that, we’ll get our answers.”

“Right.”

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We went into the gym and saw some girls already there. They looked like girls from another class. I saw their usernames…

“Sugai_yuuka” “berika♥” “RISA.w” “princess yui”

“Hi~” One of the girls waved as we approached them.

I noticed that these girls were wearing different uniforms. Are they from the Keyaki division?

The girl named Yuuka then spoke up, “You four… You’re from the Akihabara division, right?”

“Nope,” Risa answered. “We were getting ready to meet up online and play our game as usual, but then we blacked out and found ourselves here.”

So it’s the same. The mobile game is connected to our current situation…

“...so we just made this digital simulation and put you in it.”

“We’re not too sure, but I think this might be some kind of virtual reality.”

“Virtual reality?!” Yui exclaimed. “Like those VR games?”

“Berika’s always wanted to do VR!”

“I don’t think that’s something you should be happy about, Berika.”

“Anyways. I think there are more of us here, so we should find anyone else who might--”

“KYAAAAA!!!” We then heard a scream from outside.

Without hesitating, we ran outside and saw two girls faced up against one of the black monsters from earlier. Their uniforms were different from both of our groups; they definitely must be the Nogizaka division.

“G-go away!” one of them screamed.

“saito☆Asuka” “hori307”

One of them picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the creature, but it didn’t affect it. They became more scared as it approached them slowly.

“Hey, you two, get behind us!” Yuuka shouted to them.

The two just did as she said and ran towards us, hiding behind us.

“What the heck is that thing?!”

“I don’t know. But me and Sakura saw it when we were leaving the school building.”

“Are those supposed to be, like, the monsters you fight in the mobile game?” I asked.

“Whatever they are, they’re worse! And if this really is like the mobile game, we need to kill it!”

“How?!”

Before we could answer, we heard it roar out and charge towards us. We all ran off, making our way back inside the building. From inside, I could then see someone approaching the monster.

Someone in silver armor…? Who is that?

The person drew a sword and started fighting the monster. There was such skill, such power in her movements…

“Amazing!”

“Go, knight-san!”

The others cheered, but I remained silent as I noticed a striking feature that could only belong to one person… Her golden, blonde hair.

Jurina-san..?!

She slashed her sword and defeated the monster. After it disappeared, her sword and armor dematerialized and revealed herself to be in her uniform.

“That’s Jurina-senpai!!!” Mako explained.

“Holy crap!”

She looked to us as we ran out to her.

“Matsui-senpai, that was incredible!” Nana said. “But, how did you know what to..?”

“I’m a veteran player of ‘God’s Game’. Once I found out I was able to transform into my avatar, the rest was easy.”

“That’s amazing! Matsui-san, you’re amazing!” Miona said excitedly. “Will you teach me how to do that?! I wanna use magic like my avatar in the game!”

“I think you’ll all learn that soon.”

“Huh?”

“Come with me. The others are waiting,” she said calmly, leading us in her direction.

“Others?! You found them all?!”

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We made it to the rooftop where several other girls were waiting. One I recognized as an underclassmen, Oguri Yui, and the others were from the Nogizaka division. There was one more girl, from the Keyakizaka division, standing by herself.

“Is this all of us?”

Just then, Iku-chan appeared again, surprising everyone else. I saw Jurina keep a calm, stoic composure, even in front of the mysterious girl.